The brown in this huipil panel is the natural, undyed color of coyuscate, a wild cotton considered to hold the cosmic energy of the earth’s fertility and the powers of the sun and the goddess Ixchel. The horizontal zigzag (an abstract serpent motif) combines with vertical zigzags (lightning and thunder) to suggest rain and agricultural abundance. The connected diamonds in the adjacent huipil panel represent cosmic unity, the earth and sky as one.